History Music / Discipline

Three years after dissolving King Crimson, guitarist and de-facto band leader Music/RobertFripp was pulled out of retirement by one of his former collaborators, Music/BrianEno, who wanted him to play guitar on Music/DavidBowie's upcoming album ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]''. While reluctant to do so at first, Fripp found the experience enjoyable enough to go back into music, spending the rest of the '70s collaborating with a variety of other artists, from fellow prog stalwart Music/PeterGabriel to rising pop star [[Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates Daryl Hall]] to NewWaveMusic giants Music/TalkingHeads and Music/{{Blondie}}.

''Discipline'', released in 1981, is the eighth studio album by English ProgressiveRock band Music/KingCrimson. Their first release since ''Music/{{Red|KingCrimsonAlbum}}'' roughly seven years prior, the album was the end result of a large amount of other artists' works converging at once.

Three years after dissolving King Crimson, guitarist and de-facto band leader Robert Fripp was pulled out of retirement by one of his former collaborators, Music/BrianEno, who wanted him to play guitar on Music/DavidBowie's upcoming album ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]''. While reluctant to do so at first, Fripp found the experience enjoyable enough to go back into music, spending the rest of the '70s collaborating with a variety of other artists, from fellow prog stalwart Music/PeterGabriel to rising pop star [[Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates Daryl Hall]] to NewWaveMusic giants Music/TalkingHeads and Music/{{Blondie}}.

* Robert Fripp - electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, Frippertronics

* ReCut: Reissues of the album from the 1989 "Definitive Edition" remaster onward edit "Matte Kudasai" to remove the Frippertronics, including a Frippertronic solo by Robert Fripp. The 2001 remaster would include the original 1981 version at the end of the album as a bonus track.

* VariantCover:
** The original release of the album features a Celtic knotwork design by John Kyrk, based on a design by George Bain. Because the Bain design turned out to be copyrighted and used without permission, the 2001 reissue replaced it with a new, specially-commissioned design by Steve Ball, titled "Possible Productions knotwork", and it's stuck ever since; Ball would design various other knotwork logos for Fripp's other projects.
** While early CD releases retain the Bain/Kyrk knotwork design, they also increase the proportional size of it and the text and bunch everything closer together to compensate for the smaller space on a jewel case. Releases since 2001 meanwhile stick with the LP proportions.